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The school made counselors available for students. Beloved sons and daughters.

Telegraph reports that the gunman who was said to have been born in United Kingdom, opened fire in a science classroom at the Umpqua Community College and was armed with three handguns and what police described as a “long gun”.

Other neighbours told the Los Angeles Times that Harper-Mercer was a “loner”.

“We are the only country on earth that sees these kind of mass shootings every few months” he said.

Ian Mercer, the father of UCC gunman Chris Harper Mercer has told he has been left in a stupor and speechless after his 26 year old son’s shooting rampage at Roseberg, Oregon’s Umpqua Community College.

The shooting happened at Umpqua (UMP’-kwah) Community College in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland.

Law enforcement officials are saying that early reports indicate at least 15 people killed and 20 others injured, according to multiple reports. At that time, five people were killed and one injured at a shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Washington state. The first...

Skarlatos is from Roseburg, and is studying for a career in law enforcement at Umpqua Community College. But because of that incident, and the celebrity that followed, Skarlatos was selected as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and deferred the courses.

Local resident Marilyn Kittelman, whose 17-year-old son attends the college, said he texted her as the tragedy unfolded while he hid in his classroom in a nearby building.